Walden Bello
Activist • Academic • Journalist • Writer
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Healing Syria’s Gushing Wound
(This article was co-authored with Richard Javad Heydarian.*) Almost 18 months after the onset of popular-democratic...
An island of growth in a stagnant sea
The economic news on the Philippines the last few weeks has been good. The country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth...
We don’t need $100,000, Mr. Thomas; we need action on greenhouse gas emissions
This July was the hottest July in the United States ever since they started keeping records. In India, the monsoon rains...
Philippine-style democracy on trial
In the coming week, two critical bills will move to center stage at the House of Representatives: the Freedom of...
Will the Burma Road End in Democracy?
Most visitors to Myanmar these days, when the country is opening up, limit their trips to Yangon, better known in better...
Another bright idea we cannot afford
(This article was co-written by Sabrina Gacad) The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Washington-based Clean Technology...